Wilde: 1747 books

The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written in exile in France. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole, highlighting the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share.

Contents: The Decay of Lying Pen, Pencil And Poison The Critic As Artist The Truth of Masks

It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood...

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY/LE PORTRAIT DE DORIAN GRAY:This unique book features paragraph by paragraph translations from English to French, allowing the reader to learn French vocabulary and sentence structure while enjoying a famous novel.It is a fun and affordable way to learn a second...

ContentsThe Devoted Friend The Happy Prince Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Model Millionaire The Nightingale and the Rose The Portrait of Mr. W. H The Remarkable Rocket The Selfish Giant The Sphinx without a Secret

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy...

Every day children used to play in the Giant's garden while they were returning home from school. It was a beautiful garden full of green grass and different flowers. But one day the Giant came back. He hadn't been at home for seven years. When he saw children who were playing in the garden he became...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jill Nevile. ‘When we are happy, we are always good’, says Lord Henry, ‘but when we are good, we are not always happy.’ Lord Henry’s lazy,...

A magnificent piece of literary work! The language is exquisite: beautiful metaphors, excellent sentences and brilliant dialogues. The characters are built with very realistic and deep psychological understanding.What happens in this book? Dorian has a painting made of him. His psyche spirals downward but is manifest by the deterioration of the painting, apparently not him.

Classic / British English The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him!   In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy.

Stuart shows how many of the opinions in our society that cause us anguish can be released through some psychological and spiritual understanding. He reveals the techniques that can help liberate you from the perceptions of others and , thus, set you FREE!

Este é mais um volume da bestseller Coleção Melhores Contos, uma seleção de obras primas de autores de diversas nacionalidades e com temáticas das mais variadas, mas que tem em comum uma enorme e talvez a mais importante qualidade literária: a de dar prazer ao leitor. Neste ebook você terá...

Um clássico da literatura que reúne histórias fantásticas e sobrenaturais que apaixonam leitores de todas as idades. O Fantasma dos Canterville é uma história divertida onde o grande escritor de língua inglesa parodia as velhas lendas de fantasmas ao mesmo tempo que leva o leitor a refletir sobre...